Deity

I slew the dark god last night. It was a difficult and gruelling fight and as exhaustion had lain my compatriots and l out across the lawn, I mused on the nature of some gods.

It wasn't deep or metaphysical I have to say, just dwelling on the aesthetics of each god's appearance. By any rights, the dark god was decent enough - Frightening, imperious, appearing with a Lovecraftian sky full of ancient stars as his backdrop. I gave him a 7.5 overall. Oh, did I mention the dragonhead? The dark god was dragonheaded.

So I mentioned to a friend that I slew said god and we began to contemplate gods together. He says he would like to see a god with horns. Now of course dragons have horns, as a rule. It seems to me that my friend, who has a distaste for things reptilian, might not have been interested in a dragonheaded god. What other logical options would there be then?

My first impression was based on Minotaurs. A Gigantic, bull-horned god with muscles that look like VWs moving around each other in a tight parking lot. An Axe seems to be the obvious choice of weapon, but I think a pair of giant long steel bats with spikes would also look right. A rhinoceros theme may also work I suppose, but it the rhino has always taken second place to the bull in the western mind. The rhino-horned god would be a lesser god.

For my own sense of aesthetics, I insist that a horned god must have two horns or more. Two is the minimum. Unless possibly if the god were cyclopean. One eye, one horn, one temple for all. I'm not fond of this god anyways, it gets mention because it's the only viable single horned god. Maybe there could be an aquatic god with one horn, sweeping way back past his head. Maybe, I will get back to you on it.

Other horned gods? Well the lizard based gods are most obvious, being followed closely by the humanoid who just happens to be growing horns for no reason. The latter resembling the devils that Xianity likes to think it was the creator of. Heheh, naive buggers. I see no violation of aesthetics to have an avian god with a horn. If one can have a beak, I reason it is entirely plausible to have a horn or two or three. It is fantasy, after all.

Human based and anmal based gods are standard all the way through history. I like them a lot too (the animal based especially). The only other format that springs to mind is based on things that are completely unnatural and do not follow the patterns of established reality. Sorry to mention him a second time, but Lovecraft inspires some truly fearsome horned gods.

I have a current disposition to dismiss deities that are not fundamentally biologic in nature. This is a temporary thing which comes and goes. Once I am over it I may come back and promote mechanical gods with great horns that do double service as cogs in the automata of their universal workings. Part of the reason I could (currently) accept a god made of stone and not one made of constructed steel is that stone is natural. I think the god must be natural in some respects. and capable of bringing itself together.

In fact, if built by someone or something else, my sense of aesthetics demands that one could only be a demigod. All the PC types who are gonna piss and moan about this can shut up too; If you don't have the power to make yourSelf a god, then you just ain't qualified.

I wonder now, what would my friend's god be like?

Quickly, before I go, and offering only as much detail as my friend, I think I want (at the moment) a god with wings. Aimee Leonard, who is cute, has this to say on the subject: "i would like to see a woman god with luscious blond locks and huge angel wings."

I would really like to hear about your own gods, whoever reads this. It is rare that i solicit reaction but take the plunge this time.